Thanks to YouTube and some quick thinking, a new mother from Tennessee was able to deliver her own baby when she was alone in a hotel room overseas in Istanbul, Turkey.

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WTVF reports Tia Freeman, 22, was flying from Tennessee to Turkey when she began to feel ill.

"I was like, 'I'll just sleep it off, sleep cures everything,'" Freeman said. "So I go to sleep and wake up as we're landing and I notice my cramps have gotten astronomically worse."

According to People, Freeman is a vegetarian and thought an in-flight meal might be the cause of her sickness. Soon she realized it was not, in fact, food poisoning.

Freeman just barely made it to her hotel before realizing her stomach pain was actually contractions. Alone in a foreign country and with no idea how to get to a hospital, Freeman turned to YouTube.

"I literally was on YouTube typing like 'how to deliver a baby,'" Freeman said. "Scroll, scroll, scroll and yup, that video looks like they know what they're talking about."

The young woman said her newborn boy entered the world after she pushed just five times. A WikiHow article walked her through how to cut the child's umbilical cord. She used shoelaces and a pocketknife that she sterilized in an electronic tea kettle.

Freeman took a cab to the airport the next morning. Her child was issued an emergency passport and allowed to fly home at two weeks old.

Her story has gone viral on Twitter and been shared internationally.

The short version: My friend Tia was on the way to Germany to visit me. During her Layover in Istanbul she GAVE BIRTH to a HEALTHY BABY BOY